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More and more, skincare and cosmetics brands are turning to refillable beauty products as an answer to the urgent calls from consumers demanding more sustainable packaging. What was once a niche, hard-to-find category is now actually quite common — and we love to see it. The best part? These beauty brands aren’t compromising on quality, […]

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The aspirational “zero-waste” lifestyle is nothing new; it was pioneered more than a decade ago by California blogger Bea Johnson, famous for fitting a year’s worth of household garbage into a single quart jar. Lately, however, going zero-waste has taken on fresh urgency as we collectively confront the state of our planet and companies across […]

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It’s about to get a lot easier to recycle your beauty products in Canada thanks to the Nordstrom Beautycycle program. Starting today, the retailer will accept empty beauty product packaging, regardless of brand, at any Nordstrom Canada store. The goal is make sure that hard-to-recycle packaging isn’t sent straight to landfill. (Of 120 billion units […]

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From ingredient sourcing to sustainable packaging, here’s how the industry’s forward thinkers are striving to tread more lightly as they produce the beauty products you see on the shelves. RETHINK (INGREDIENTS) The fine print on beauty labels tells us next to nothing about how responsibly sourced ingredients are. To muddy matters, calculating a product’s eco-footprint […]

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Shopping your K-beauty faves has never been easier

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When makeup artist Kirsten Kjaer Weis launched her namesake organic makeup line in 2010, luxury green beauty barely existed. Explaining the concept to retailers proved to be difficult, as they considered prestige and green beauty mutually exclusive. “I remember talking to a department store in Japan, and they had the green [products] in the basement and […]

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As it continues to scale up, Caudalie is on a mission to improve its carbon footprint with a newly built eco-friendly facility, minimized packaging and reformulated products.

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While our global plastic problem should be a subject we discuss and address all year long, Earth Day is as good an excuse as any to explore new ways to deal with the roughly 300 million tons we consume globally every year—to which the beauty industry is a major contributor. Brands are finally coming up […]

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Few things equate with the spirit of self-care like a good sheet mask. On top of coercing active ingredients into the depths of our pores, they double as a veritable “Do Not Disturb” sign for our faces, fending off unwanted conversations and broadcasting to others that whatever household chore may require attention right now must […]

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How many times have you ordered the newest addition to your favourite skincare line, and then upon arrival and unboxing, wondered, ‘how much more packaging do they need for this little thing?!’ ? Unfortunateluy, many beauty products today are cocooned in the excessive material, like plastic, cellophane, and foam. And many come with their own […]

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The humble shampoo bar was once thrown into a camping pack alongside the bug spray, but with alarm bells going off about what-the-hell-are-we-doing levels of single-use-plastic consumption, interest in the packageless hair wash has risen. “We’ve stocked our shampoo bar for many years and it was one of our more niche products,” says Tara Pelletier, co-founder […]

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Back in July, footage of trash floating atop normally crystal blue waves and onto the shores of Montesinos Beach in the Dominican Republic was released by a group of conservationists who called it a “dense garbage carpet.” The sight of plastic bottles and takeout containers mingling with seaweed illustrated the critical condition our oceans are […]

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